--- title: "Visualizing Veteran Population" author: "Jacky Lam" date: "November 30, 2018" output: html_document: default pdf_document: default ---
Figure 1: A quick demographic study of veterans across the United States and New York.
I was curious to know what the veteran population was like in the United States, so I went onto the Department of Veterans Affairs website and found a bunch of spreadsheets and pivot tables on veteran population.
Here is a breakdown of veteran popuulation density across the US in 2015. We can see that most veterans live in California, Texas, and Florida.Below is a searchable data table of veteran population in 2015 by state: